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CIGARETTE 0R CIGAR. No. 561,907. Patented June 9, 1896.

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UNITED. STATES PATENT OEErcE.

EMIL HOONELIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGARETTE OR CIGAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 561,907, dated June 9,1896. Application filed April 24,1896. erial No. 588,883. I SJ To all whom it TIL-02y concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL Moonnms, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigarettes or Cigars, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an all-tobacco cigarette or cigar, so that while its essential character as an all-tobacco cigarette or cigar is not altered-that is to say, the part of the cigarette or cigar smoked and the part coming in contact with the lips are all tobaccoa stiff and strong mouthpiece is provided constructed to aid the freesmoking quality of the cigarette or cigar, cool the smoke, and absorb the nicotine. To this end I provide a mouthpiece of blotting-paper or absorbent paper, preferably perforated at the end coming in contact with the lips. This mouthpiece is applied to the filler or bunch of the cigarette or cigar and is held thereon by the cigarette or cigar wrappcr,wl1ich covers not only the filler or bunch but the entire paper mouthpiece.

The accompanying drawing represents, partly in section and partly in side elevation, a cigarette or cigar constructed in accordance with my invention In making the cigarette or cigar I first prepare the filler or bunch 1 of ordinary form, the Perfecto shape being preferred. The mouthpiece 2 is made of absorbent paper, preferably thin b1otting-paper, and I prefer to provide the end thereof entering the lips with numerous perforations The mouthpiece is of tubular form slightly tapering and having the wall thereof at its outer end formed with a thin edge to continue the contour of the filler or bunch 1, which is reduced in diameter at its inner end, when the mouthpiece is slipped thereon, as shown in the drawing. When so applied, it is held by the wrapper at, which surrounds the filler or bunch and mouthpiece. For smoking purposes this is an alltobacco cigarette or cigar, the filler or bunch and wrapper being all tobacco, and by using the porous or perforated tube 52 the simulation of the action of the alltobacco cigarette or cigar is carried so far that the smoke not merely enters the mouth of the smoker through the open end of the tube, but it-passes through the walls of the tube 2 and through the thin wrapper 4, so coming in contact with the lips of the smoker. The smoking of the cigarette or cigar is therefore much more agreeable to the smoker than one in which a hard impervious mouthpiece of parchrnentized or calendered paper is used. The tube 2 is, nevertheless, of sufficient strength to hold its shape during smoking, or when crushed by the teeth of the smoker the provision of the perforations 3 still allows the cigarette or cigar to draw well. The porous paper is also valuable as affording a large cooling area for the smoke and a large absorptive surface for the nicotine.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. An all-tobacco cigarette or cigar, con structed with a filler or bunch 1 reduced in diameter at its inner end so as to bring the body of the filler flush with the mouthpiece in which it is inserted, a tapering mouthpiece of absorbent material having the wall at its outer end tapered to a thin edge and covering the inner end of the filler or bunch, and a wrapper i covering the whole as herein shown and described.

2. An all-tobacco cigarette or cigar constructed with a filler or bunch 1 tapered to receive the mouthpiece a perforated tapering mouthpiece of absorbent material covering the tapered end of the filler or bunch, and a wrapper 4 covering the whole as herein shown and described.

3. In an all-tobacco cigarette or cigar, the combination of the filler or bunch 1, the perforated tubular mouthpiece 2 of porous paper and the wrapper i surrounding said mouthpiece and retaining it to the filler or bunch 1, substantially as set fort-h.

EMIL MOONELIS.

\Vitnesses:

M. V. Bmooon, J. GREEN. 

